Posted: 11/01/2012

5468796 Architecture’s staff gathers around this 42-foot-long worktable.

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The New Wave - 5468796 Architecture

Although the firm’s name, 5468796 Architecture, comes from its corporate identification number, its partners are far from business-obsessed. Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic, both Europeans who met as undergrads at the University of Manitoba in Canada in 1996, believe that good design need not be expensive. The firm completed the headquarters of Manitoba Start, an agency that offers orientation classes, career counseling, and employment workshops to area immigrants. Photography by James Brittain.
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The 22,500-square-foot agency headquarters occupies the street level of the Avenue on Portage, a mixed-use commercial and rental-apartment building also renovated by 5468796 Architecture.

Solid walls enclosing classrooms and other private spaces include a vinyl hexagonal pattern—a leitmotif developed by the architects to reflect their resolution of the existing structure’s irregular column grid—that became part of Manitob.

The pattern repeats as cutouts in a plywood wall.

Cutout partitions of birch plywood and MDF outside a classroom create filtered privacy.

The arrangement of the fluorescent pendant fixtures at Manitoba Start echoes the client’s branding.

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Posted: 11/01/2012

The New Wave - 5468796 Architecture